Certain Objects not Disabling with Same Script Attached

Unity Engine
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I have a game with a bunch of different types of fish, all the fish’s(fishes’?) scripts are inheriting from one base script. I have a part in that script that disables the object if it leaves the screen for too long.

I can’t really put my finger on what’s going on, but so far I only have 2 different types of fish. One is being deactivated after leaving the screen for 5 seconds, as intended. The other is not.

Here’s my base script with the aforementioned method.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyFish : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed, size, detectRange;
    public Vector3 moveGoal;

    protected Animator anim;
    public bool isLeft;
    public int fishNum;
    private Camera cam;
    Vector2 screenHalfSize;
    float timerToDeactivate = 5;

    private void Awake()
    {
        cam = Camera.main;

        screenHalfSize = new Vector2(Camera.main.aspect * Camera.main.orthographicSize, Camera.main.orthographicSize);
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        if(transform.position.x > screenHalfSize.x + 5 || transform.position.x < -screenHalfSize.x -5 || transform.position.y > screenHalfSize.y || transform.position.y < -screenHalfSize.y)
        {
            timerToDeactivate -= Time.deltaTime;
            if(timerToDeactivate < 0)
            {
                timerToDeactivate = 5;
                gameObject.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
        else if(timerToDeactivate < 5)
        {
            timerToDeactivate = 5;
        }
    }
    private void OnDisable()
    {
        FishSpawner.Spawner.spawnNumbers[fishNum] -= 1;
    }

}

I even tried watching the “timerToDeactivate” after setting the inspector to debug mode, I can’t, for the life of me, figure out what’s wrong. Both of the fish’s scripts inherit from “EnemyFish”, I am sure of this as they both use the inherited moveGoal and speed variables. I even tried dragging the fish outside of the screen and holding it there, the timer does not go down, but if I try it with the other fish it works fine.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

2

Does one of the fish scripts which inherit from this one happen to implement its own Update method?

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Ah, that was the issue, it had an Update() method for one measily line lol, I moved it to a FixedUpdate() and it fixed it. Thanks!